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is sold at the works at prices ranging from $2.50 to $3.00 per sack, $3.00 being asked for one sack, and $2.50 for a larger quantity. At the tinge of our visit forty-two large kettles were full of the boiling water.

This saline is a little more than one mile from the Central. Pacific Railroad, and one hundred miles east of Dallas. It is one of the finest salines known, affording a much. larger supply of water than the Salt Springs at Syracuse. N. Y., which have largely contributed towards making a large city. The Grand Saline is in the tertiary, near the eastern border of the cretaceous.

At Graham, in the southern part of Young county, oil the Salt Fork of the Brazos, are salt works, owned by the Messrs. Graham, of that place. At the town of Graham, the banks of the Salt Fork for the distance of about three-fourths of a mile, in times of low water, are whitened near the water edge with salt. The incrustations of salt in a dry time extend across the stream. Water of considerable saltness is here obtained from shallow wells. To get stronger water a well has been sunk or bored, of which the following is a section of the strata passed through: